Mark B. Chadwick [2009]
Los Alamos National Laboratory
Citation: For significant and innovative contributions to applied nuclear physics, including medical radiation therapy, nonproliferation, homeland security, the physics of nuclear weapons, and especially to development of the modern ENDF/B-VII data base.
Nominated by: DNP
Donald G. Crabb [2009]
University of Virginia
Citation: For his contributions to the use of high field polarized targets and development of high polarization and radiation resistant polarized target materials and his role in using them in seminal particle physics experiments and advancing the knowledge of the behavior in high intensity beams.
Nominated by: DNP
Bradley Filippone [2009]
California Institute of Technology
Citation: In recognition of his many contributions to nuclear astrophysics, nucleon spin structure, nuclear interactions at short distances, and fundamental symmetries and especially the development of experimental techniques to meet these challenges.
Nominated by: DNP
Carl J. Gross [2009]
Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Citation: For enabling the studies of most exotic atomic nuclei through the invention and implementation of novel experimental methods.
Nominated by: DNP
Van Isacker [2009]
GANIL
Citation: For his fearless confrontation of transitional nuclei using graded Lie Algebras, g-bosons, gamma deformations and nuclear chaos leading to interrelations of bands in even-even, odd-even and odd-odd nuclei and predictions of nuclear masses beyond the valley of stability.
Nominated by: DNP
Spencer Klein [2009]
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Citation: For pioneering studies of quantum-mechanical interference effects in coulomb interactions between highly-charged nuclei at ultra-relativistic energies, and in the suppression of bremsstrahlung in electron scattering from dense media.
Nominated by: DNP
Gail C. McLaughlin [2009]
North Carolina State University
Citation: For her work in elucidating the role of neutrinos in nucleosynthesis in supernovae and black hole accretion disks, and for her studies of the potential of low energy beta-beams in neutrino physics.
Nominated by: DNP
Ulf G. Meissner [2009]
Universitaet of Bonn
Citation: For leading the development of chiral perturbation theory with baryons, including many pioneering and successful predictions for the interactions of nucleons with photons, pions, and other nucleons.
Nominated by: DNP
Rory A. Miskimen [2009]
University of Massachusetts
Citation: For his leadership in the field of experimental electromagnetic nuclear physics, especially in studies of nucleon structure and low energy QCD.
Nominated by: DNP
Shelley A. Page [2009]
University of Manitoba
Citation: For her leading role in a series of sequential hadronic parity violation experiments designed to elucidate the interplay of the weak and strong interactions in hadronic systems.
Nominated by: DNP
Dan Shapira [2009]
Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Citation: For contributions to the study of nuclear collisions: the discovery of nuclear orbiting, pioneering measurements of the space-time extent of particle-emitting sources, and seminal studies of fusion with n-rich exotic beams, and for development of innovative instrumentation to enable these studies.
Nominated by: DNP
Lee G. Sobotka [2009]
Washington University in St. Louis
Citation: For his contributions to the understanding of complex nuclear reactions, most notably the production of intermediate mass fragments, and for the creation of novel detector systems and signal processing technologies for both basic and applied nuclear science.
Nominated by: DNP
Thomas Ullrich [2009]
Brookhaven National Laboratory
Citation: For his leading contributions to the study of electrons, and hadrons containing charm and bottom quarks in relativistic heavy ion collisions.
Nominated by: DNP
Nu Xu [2009]
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Citation: For important contributions to the observation of partonic collectivity.
Nominated by: DNP